FOLEY The Foley man missing since December who was found dead Tuesday behind a business east of St. Cloud was the victim of a homicide, the Benton County Sheriff's Office said Friday.

Jamie Robert Wylie, 31, was reported missing after family hadn't heard from him since Dec. 10. A passerby spotted his body behind Luther Honda on Tuesday.

An autopsy at the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office determined that Wylie died from homicidal violence, according to the Benton County Sheriff's Office. No details were reported.

The investigation into Wylie's death is ongoing, according to a news release from Benton County Sheriff Brad Bennett.

Some members of Wylie's family said in December they were concerned about his safety when they hadn't heard from him. Friends and family conducted searches without success.

Court records indicate that on Dec. 20, investigators searched the house in Foley where Wylie lived with his wife to try to help determine what happened to him.

They also used a search warrant in late January to get cellphone information in an attempt to learn where Wylie was when calls were made to his phone in the days after he was reported missing.

When Benton County investigators searched the home, they were trying to determine whether Wylie had harmed himself or whether his wife, Dana Nistler-Wylie, might have been involved in his disappearance, according to the Dec. 20 search warrant.

The search warrant, filed in Benton County District Court, shows that at least one extended family member told investigators that Jamie Wylie may be suicidal and had been seen with a gun before he disappeared. Others told investigators that Dana Nistler-Wylie and Jamie Wylie were separated when Wylie went missing.

Investigators have declined to comment on whether they have identified any suspects in Wylie's death.

The warrant gives some details about the last sightings of Wylie before he went missing. He was seen by a woman at the Sauk Rapids Coborn's just before noon on Dec. 10, according to the warrant. The woman who saw him there told police Wylie "smelled like marijuana and alcohol and said he was waiting for a friend to pick him up."

The warrant indicates that the last call made from Wylie's cell phone was at 10:54 a.m. Dec. 10 to his wife's cell phone.

That was one day after Wylie was at an apartment in east St. Cloud where an acquaintance heard Wylie make a phone call to his wife. That acquaintance saw Wylie get upset when a man answered the phone at Dana Nistler-Wylie's residence, according to the warrant.

"Jamie Wylie began to make comments that everyone was against him. He said he was going to go buy a gun and kill the guy who answered the phone," the warrant said.

Wylie then left the apartment.

The search warrant indicates that investigators wanted to search Wylie's residence in the days after his disappearance but that Dana Nistler-Wylie refused to allow police to enter the residence. She told investigators that Jamie Wylie didn't have his identification with him. She later told investigators that she had Wylie's wallet but that his identification card was not in it.

The search warrant indicates that investigators found Wylie's wallet at the residence during the Dec. 20 search and that Wylie's ID was inside the wallet.